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EricV

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I'm starting to realize that I have very boring, mundane tastes. :oops:
We can help with that. ;) But I also understand the time Vs food battle. Some days you're just not in the mood for prep time.

@Checkswrecks - Small skillet, 1 egg wisked, mix well, add fresh chopped green onion to taste, cook into a thin patty and serve between toasted sourdough bread. Possibly with a melted slice of smoked gouda cheese in there.

Or, screw it, add bacon and serve. :cool: 'Cause, everything's better with bacon. :D
 

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Here's a near guilt free snack. The spray. . . . has 0 everything. (don't know how that works) Only 60mg sodium for the flavoring. 29g of carbs for the popcorn. (6g fiber) Best of all. . . . tastes better than theater popcorn. (at least to me anyway).
 

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I won't lie, back in my 20's I proved that man can live on processed and take out food alone. :p It's just so much cheaper to eat well when you cook your meals. I used to shop at a place that dropped all their meat to $1/lb after a week. They were open 24 hours, so every Tues at midnite they dropped the meat prices. I worked swing, so got off at midnite if I didn't have OT. I'd swing by that store and get these awesome cuts of meat like London broils or other roasts for $1/lb. Often the big cuts didn't sell out, so I'd have a 4-6 lb hunk of meat to cook.

Sometimes I'd slice it all up into smaller cuts and cubes and freeze that. Other times I'd toss it in the oven and cook it that way. Regardless, I'd make my work lunches for a week on Sundays and toss them in the fridge. Lots of stir frys over rice that I could portion into a 2 cup plastic container that I could just toss in the micro at work for lunch and have a nice, tasty, hot meal instead of a cold sandwich or pre-processed microwave entree. One portion was costing me around $1 with the meat, veggies and rice, sauces, etc all factored in. You can't eat that good for $1 any other way!

Last night was a recycle of previous menus. We liked the stuffed sweet peppers so much that we did that again. Made up a fresh batch of Mexi meat with ground beef, green and red bell peppers, garlic, onions and spices. Then mixed in a couple of cups of left over saffron rice. A cup or so of grated Tillimook medium cheddar cheese and used that to stuff the mini sweet pepper halves as well as making a couple of corn tortilla taquitos too. So dinner was a taquito and 4 mini pepper halves with a big portion of home made salad with a little fat free ranch on the salad and some siracha hot chili sauce on the taquito to take the heat up a notch. All the left over Mexi meat/rice/cheese mix will get rolled up into taquitos today and frozen w/o cooking for later meals. 12 minutes at 400F usually does the trick. We spray some Pam on the foil lined backing sheet, then a light spray of the Pam on top of the taquitos too to help them crisp up.
 

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As far as food porn. . . . this is XXX. . . .

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The cookies were a air fryer trial. Result? Ugly, but delicious. The fudge-caramel brownies? They tasted as good as they looked. Sure am glad the gyms open tomorrow. (in TX at least)
 

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Ma Nature decided she was not through with March so I applied for a kitchen pass!

I used meat hammer spanked top round deer steak. Add some garlic slices to bolster the onion. And horseradish sauce mixed 30/70 with olive oil mayo.

Hand grated hash browns and stewed apples with brown shoogah and cinnamon on the side.

Spkldoe is in for a treat when she gets home from work.



 

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So, made a double batch of Bierocks today. Breakfast version of sausage/egg/cheddar/onion/jalapeno/spices. And another dozen with BBQ pulled pork/Smoked Gouda goodness.
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Then did some baked coconut shrimp for dinner.

Before...
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And after baking... with a little Terrapine Ridge Farms Tropical Tequila sauce. (The sauce is mostly on a bit of left over batter I mixed together with some Parmesan cheese.)

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Damn the monsoons but a damn fine lunch...


Folding technique needs work but none to shabby for my first half batch.

Inspired by the honorable EricV. Thank you sir.
 

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In from work, Spkldoe tried one of my first batch with broccoli, onions, tomato and leftover deer steak. She says, "Those would be better with pepperoni and mozzarella." [Pepperoni rolls are a WV on-the-go staple]
I had planned to freeze the other half of the dough but, thinking that would be the end of it, I told her I had more dough. Damned if she didn't say, "I'll stuff if you roll and fold."
She went out the door this morning toting one for lunch today...I think she liked 'em! :D



 

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The great thing about this breaded pocket of goodness type of food is you can put literally anything you like inside them. Some are more traditional for various regions, or different shapes and styles of folding/pinching the dough, or different types of dough, but the basic concept is the same. Pastie, Runzas, Bierock, Empanadas and heck, even pot stickers all fall into this category.

I'm kind of in the mood for bagel dogs with some kind of brat or polish dog. Might have to do that soon. :p
 

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In from work, Spkldoe tried one of my first batch with broccoli, onions, tomato and leftover deer steak. She says, "Those would be better with pepperoni and mozzarella." [Pepperoni rolls are a WV on-the-go staple]
I had planned to freeze the other half of the dough but, thinking that would be the end of it, I told her I had more dough. Damned if she didn't say, "I'll stuff if you roll and fold."
She went out the door this morning toting one for lunch today...I think she liked 'em! :D
Got to love it when a plan comes together! Not sure if it was your plan or Spkldoe's, but the results are definitely food porn worthy!
 

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The great thing about this breaded pocket of goodness type of food is you can put literally anything you like inside them.

I'm kind of in the mood for bagel dogs with some kind of brat or polish dog. Might have to do that soon. :p
I'm scaling up to Calzone next!

You've created a monster!!
 
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